Current Departmental Seminars (2012-13)
The Departmental Seminar is central to the academic life of the Department, and runs every week in term time.
The Departmental Seminars run on Fridays from 2.30 to 4.30pm in Arts Tower Lecture Theatre 7, unless otherwise stated. Speakers send their paper in advance, and speak for 30 minutes, followed by discussion. After the meeting, discussion usually continues in a local pub.
Papers are normally available 3 days before the meeting - please enquire in the Departmental Office. For more information please contact Robin Scaife
All are welcome!
| Autumn Semester 2012-13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 5 October |
Heather Logue (Leeds) | "Disjunctivism, Naive Realism, & Philosophical versus Scientific Study of Perceptual Experience" |
| 13 October |
Samir Okasha (Bristol) | "Some remarks concerning the interpretation of decision theory" |
| 19 October | Anne Sophie Spann (Innsbruck) | "Hurricanes & Lives. Some remarks on Animalism's Trust in Strict Identity through Time" |
| 26 October | Maria Alvarez (KCL) | "Choice & Compulsion" |
| 2 November | Bob Hale (Sheffield) | "Contingent Beings" |
| 16th November |
Arif Ahmed (Cambridge) | "Counterfactuals and decision" |
| 23 November | Raimond Gaita (Melbourne) | "Reason and Meaning in Ethics" |
| 30 November |
John Hadley (Western Sydney) | "A critique of the psychological theory of intrinsic value" |
| 7 December | Amber Carpenter (York) | "Pleasure as Temptation, as Reward, and as Expression |
Spring Semester 2013
| 8th Feb | Ben Jarvis (Queens Belfast) | "Belief without Credence" | AT-LT7 |
| 15th Feb | Mary McCabe (Kings College London) |
"Tranformative goods: Rereading Glaucon's |
AT-LT7 |
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21st Feb |
Annual Women in the History of Philosophy Lecture: Emily Thomas (Cambridge) |
"The Metaphysics of Catharine Cockburn" |
AT LT4 |
| 22nd Feb | Chi Phi Workshop: Catherine Wilson (York) Paul Giladi (Sheffield) Matt Smith (Leeds) |
"Descartes and Locke: Essential Religiosty vs Theology" "Kant and Re-Enchantment Mechanistic Nature" "The Leviathan's Theory of Political Representation and Why It's Correct" |
HRI |
| 1st March | Katherine Hawley (St Andrews) | "Metaphysics and Death" | AT LT7 |
| 8th March | Stephen Mumford (Nottingham) | "The Power to Will" | AT LT7 |
| 15th March | Fiona Leigh (UCL) | "Does the Sophist rehabilitate mimetic artists?" | AT LT7 |
| 12th April | Tom Cochrane (Sheffield) | "The aesthetic value of ugliness" | AT LT7 |
| 19th April | Tillmann Vierkant (Edinburgh) | "Why the case for the extended will is stronger than the case for extended cognition" |
AT LT7 |
| 26th April | Neil Sinhababu (National University, Singapore) |
"Desire's Explanations" | AT LT7 |
| 3rd May | Dorothea Debus (York) | "Losing Oneself (In a Good Way): On the value of Full Attention" |
AT LT7 |
| 10th May | Jon Webber (Cardiff) | "Dispositions in Attitude Psychology" | AT LT7 |
| 13th June THURSDAY |
Mitchell S. Green (Virginia) | "Organic Meaning" | AT LT7 |
Past Departmental Seminars
2010-2011, 2009-2010, 2008-2009, 2007-2008, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-2005